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The Newest Dangerous High: Phenibut
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By Eugene S. Robinson
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By Eugene S. Robinson
Phenibut started out as an anti-anxiety drug for Russian cosmonauts.
Now it is emerging as the latest drug to be widely abused in the U.S. with significant side effects, even deaths.
Surgeon and medical theorist Dr. Steve Ballinger had a theory he once shared with me. His idea, built on a premise similar to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, was that humans were motivated by basic instincts. Food, shelter, sex but then a compelling zig where many had not zagged: dizziness.
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